> I'm not even GP but I think I can answer a lot of these
If you can, then he's failed even more. So no, I don't think that you can answer any of them.
The point I'm trying to make is that the best made plans of men and mice fail due to overlooking some small detail. I could easily make that list 10 times as long. One or more slip ups could allow someone to tie 1-and-1 together to make 3 and it is game over. The funniest part of this whole discussion is that it starts with utterly underestimating the enemy, which is a serious mistake right from getting out of the gate.
If you are going to do something as audacious as going up against a drug cartel you have to keep in mind that these are the kind of groups who would hesitate at absolutely nothing if they feel that you are their enemy. Informants and undercover police and other infiltrators (for instance from rival gangs) are routinely murdered, and their families too if that's how the wind blows.
Before you start on a job like that you begin with laying the groundwork over the course of several years, any step along the way that can give away the game will endanger you and those around you. This is not something you cook up one find winter evening and put in motion without some extremely careful planning and creating multiple levels of cut-outs for any kind of activity that might point at your real identity.
The only thing buying a couple of burner phones with cash is going to do is raise suspicion, it is not going to do much in terms of protecting you.
If the OP would put his plan to go after some drug related criminal organization in motion the most likely outcome of the adventure would be 3 lines on page 12 of a newspaper mentioning a disfigured body found floating in a river or a missing person report.
Life is not a video game, you do not get 3 lives and the same player does not get to try again in case of failure.
If you didn't come from a life of crime or from a life of being in law enforcement then your best strategy is to avoid at all costs to get mixed up in this sort of thing.
Even the Unabomber eventually got caught and he was a lot better at tradecraft than sillysaurus here.
I'm glad you raised these points, because it dissuades other people from trying this flippantly.
But for what it's worth, I carefully considered each of those points from the outset. I hatched the plan and spent several months preparing for it daily.
I left a lot of details out (I didn't anticipate much interest...) such as the practice operation I did prior to this. I'm glad I ran a fake one, since it revealed a lot of mistakes I would've made which would've scrubbed the operation.
Before you start on a job like that you begin with laying the groundwork over the course of several years, any step along the way that can give away the game will endanger you and those around you. This is not something you cook up one find winter evening and put in motion without some extremely careful planning and creating multiple levels of cut-outs for any kind of activity that might point at your real identity.
Anyone who's considering doing anything like this should take these words to heart.
If anyone is going to fight these people and win, it has to be one of us. That means you have to try. It's doable, but you have to be absolutely meticulous.
P.S. Still mildly hopeful you have a list of questions 10x as long.
Wait. I thought the Unabomber got caught after he made people publish his manifesto online/on TV. From what I remember from reading on the internet, his relatives identified certain key points in the manifesto and immediately tipped the FBI telling them about him and his similar ideologies.
So after all that careful work he still managed to blow it by not thinking of one obvious thing and he's been rotting in jail, ironically after he swore he would stop his bombing spree if they published his writing. He could not have been more right about that, his writings definitely made an end to his life as a domestic terrorist.
Staying alive and free while you are making powerful enemies is hard. The Unabomber was one of the smartest terrorists ever (IQ 160+), had a really long time to prepare what he did, was a lone wolf (which is a huge advantage compared to a larger number of people) and in the end blew it completely.
If you can, then he's failed even more. So no, I don't think that you can answer any of them.
The point I'm trying to make is that the best made plans of men and mice fail due to overlooking some small detail. I could easily make that list 10 times as long. One or more slip ups could allow someone to tie 1-and-1 together to make 3 and it is game over. The funniest part of this whole discussion is that it starts with utterly underestimating the enemy, which is a serious mistake right from getting out of the gate.
If you are going to do something as audacious as going up against a drug cartel you have to keep in mind that these are the kind of groups who would hesitate at absolutely nothing if they feel that you are their enemy. Informants and undercover police and other infiltrators (for instance from rival gangs) are routinely murdered, and their families too if that's how the wind blows.
Before you start on a job like that you begin with laying the groundwork over the course of several years, any step along the way that can give away the game will endanger you and those around you. This is not something you cook up one find winter evening and put in motion without some extremely careful planning and creating multiple levels of cut-outs for any kind of activity that might point at your real identity.
The only thing buying a couple of burner phones with cash is going to do is raise suspicion, it is not going to do much in terms of protecting you.
If the OP would put his plan to go after some drug related criminal organization in motion the most likely outcome of the adventure would be 3 lines on page 12 of a newspaper mentioning a disfigured body found floating in a river or a missing person report.
Life is not a video game, you do not get 3 lives and the same player does not get to try again in case of failure.
If you didn't come from a life of crime or from a life of being in law enforcement then your best strategy is to avoid at all costs to get mixed up in this sort of thing.
Even the Unabomber eventually got caught and he was a lot better at tradecraft than sillysaurus here.